But when they glued the same skin directly to
a dead hagfish's muscles, the tooth readily pierced it.
Not exact matches
One more unusual behavior may be explained by the
hagfish lifestyle: The slime «eels» live on the sea floor, burrowing into the mud and even into
dead whale carcasses to scavenge for food.
By twisting into a knot, the
hagfish can tear flesh off
dead and rotting carcasses.
«Lamprey are eel - like parasites that use their tooth - like organs and raspy tongue to latch onto fish and suck out the blood, while
hagfish scavenge by taking bites out of
dead matter,» he says.
Douglas Fudge (at right) studies the slime produced by
hagfish, a sea creature that eats
dead animals on the ocean floor.
In response, Jerry Saltz went up in arms on Facebook yesterday to label Larry Gagosian a «
HAGFISH: A blind, jawless, four - hearted creature that produces large quantities of slime and that burrow up the anuses of
dead animals and devours them from the inside,» and give him the official «j' accuse!»